Game apparatus.



A. W. NEWCOMBE.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.24. 1911.

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ALFRED W. NEWCOMBE, OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed September 24, 1917.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED W'. NEWCOMBE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Revere, county of Suffolk, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to games and game apparatus, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive and instructive game which will combine the desired features of educational value and wholesome entertainment. it is to be borne in mind that any game which aims to impart direct information upon any subject, no matter how interesting the subject may be or how attractively it may be presented, is apt to fail of its purpose unless the elements of personality and, to some degree, of chance are combined with the instructive feature itself; that is to say, the game must be interestin as a game independently of the matter 0 its instruction.

To this end 1 have devised my present invention. The nature and manner of playing my game is described in the annexed specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims. Throughout the specification and drawings like reference characters are correspondingly employed, and in the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of game apparatusin accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the educational cards used in playing my game.

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the spinner used in playing my game, and

Fig. i is a detail view of a portion of the border of the game board.

I have indicated at A a game board of appropriate size, shape and material and constituting a field which, when filled with the appropriately colored stars B, approximates the field of the American flag. The board A may have any suitable decorated border indicated at C and the field may bear an arbitrarily arranged series of numbers D constituting positioning indicia for the stars B.

One of the set of the instruction cars is indicated at E. According to this invention there are forty-nine of these cards, representative of the forty-eight States of the Union and the District of Columbia, and bearing the names of the States together Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. is, was.

Serial No. 192,855.

contains facts of general interest but respecting the District of Columbia.

Associated with the game board A is an indicator G which may be either a suitably divided and lettered area marked on the game board itself, or a separate cardboard or other dial. Revolubly mounted to cooperate with the dial or indicator G is a spinner H,

The game is played as follows: The forty-nine cards E are thoroughly shuiiied and placed in a pile face downward. the spinner H is then spun and the reading taken from the d al G. If the spinner stops at the zero indication on the dial, the next player takes his turn. If, however, the spinner stops at any of the other indications on the dial, as many cards are drawn from the deck asis called forbythe number thus indicated. Each card thus drawn is read aloud for the benefit of the drawer and the other players, and a star B is selected from the series of stars for each card drawn and is placed over the number on the number field corresponding to the number borne by each card drawn. The player who is found to have obtained the greatest number of cards, after the stars have all been placed upon the number field, wins the game.

When the prize card is drawn, the player drawing this card is required to act as instructor and to answer all questions asked during the game, and this card carries with it also the privilege of asking after the game, questions concerning the stars, States and the contents of the cards. I From the foregoing it will be seen that I provide a game in which the educational and entertainment features are so combined. as to not only create and hold the interest but to impart real information and information which might otherwise not be obtained in the course of the general read ing of the average person.

Various modifications in the form and construction of my game may obviously be resorted to if Within the limits of the appended claims.

What I therefore claim and desire tol secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Game apparatus comprising a game board having a number field, a plurality of counters adapted to be positioned upon J said field, and a plurality of instruction members representative of the States of the Union, each member containing facts of general interest respecting its particular State, and each bearing a positioning indication referable to said number field to determine the positioning or" said counters upon said field, a prize member representative of a Territory of the United States, and containing factsv of general interest respecting the said Territory, and means for indicating progressive play.

2.'Game apparatus comprising a game board having a number field, a plurality of counters in the form of stars adapted to be positioned upon said field, a spinner and dial associated with said field, a plurality of instruction members equal in number to the number of counters, and representative of the States of the Union, each member containing facts of general interest respecting its particular State, and each bearing a positioning indication referable to said number field,.to determine the positioning of said counters upon said field, and a prize member representative of the District of Columbia and containing facts of general interest respecting the District of Columbia.

In testimony whereof l-aiiix my signature in presence of twovvitnesses.

ALFRED /V. NEWCOMBE.

Witnesses:

MARY P, l/VOTHERSPOoN, AGNES OCONNELL.

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